Wednesday, March 08, 2006

 

Santorum: Science and the Decline of Western Culture

Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum wrote the forward to a new book honoring intelligent design activist Phillip Johnson. Santorum's forward to Darwin's Nemesis: Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement credits Johnson with assisting Santorum's efforts to "inject a renewed and unbiased understanding of science and its practice into the curricula of our public schools."

"The importance of the cause is clear," Santorum writes, "what could be more important than showing that only a shallow, partisan understanding of science supports the false philosophy of materialist reductionism with its thoroughly unscientific denial of formal and final causes in nature and its repudiation of the first cause of all being?"

Santorum said as the decline "of true science has been a major factor in the decline of Western culture, so too the renewal of science will play a big part in cultural renewal."

According to Kimberly Hefling of the Associated Press, Santorum announced that he would resign from the board Thomas More Law Center, which represented the Dover area school board, one day after a federal judge ruled that the school board's intelligent design policy was unconstitutional.

Santorum's resignation, rather than being one of principle, was instead a "disagreement over tactics, and nothing else" Santorum said, in a column he wrote for the Delaware County Daily Times on Jan. 5.

Santorum, an incumbent, trails his Democratic Challenger State Treasurer Bob Casey in recent polls, and is widely thought to be in serious danger of losing his once secure seat.

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